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    A Mumbai Kind Of Welcome – VileParle Variety 🚂

    April 28, 2023October 28, 2024
    A Mumbai kind of welcome - Vileparle Variety
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    Mumbai says welcome in many languages. There’s one place where you can taste them all. Vileparle says welcome home.
    Read ‘A Mumbai Kind of Welcome – Vileparle Variety‘ here.

  • Breakup | Relationships

    Custody ⛓️

    April 19, 2023September 16, 2023
    Custody Battle
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    Custody ⛓️
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    Men tell me, “You really understand how a guy feels.” I still feel wrecked by my custody battle. Read ‘CUSTODY‘ here.

  • Mumbai

    Big City Girl: Marol Memoirs

    April 14, 2023October 28, 2024
    Ramya at a big city junction, highrises and whizzing traffic visible in the background.
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    Big City Girl: Marol Memoirs
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    I grew up in a big, bad metro city. I grew up in one of its oldest villages. The journey from Marol gaon to where I am today is as winding as Andheri Kurla road. The text of ‘Big City Girl – Marol Memoirs‘ can be viewed here.

  • Love

    Journal Entries, 2016 ✍🏽

    April 10, 2023April 16, 2023
    Journal Entries, 2016
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    Journal Entries, 2016 ✍🏽
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    Love poem chaptered in pieces of my heart & pages of a journal. Read the poem ‘Journal Entries, 2016’ here.

  • Mumbai

    Another Island: Mahim Memories

    March 29, 2023October 28, 2024
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    I found home years after losing it, on a different island. Mahim was full of stories. Read ‘Another Island‘ here.

  • Relationships

    Patchwork Relationship 🚬

    March 22, 2023April 30, 2023
    Patchwork relationship
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    All of you homesick for the sickness of love, hating yourself for thinking of an ex, propping yourself on memories of a relationship, wondering if healing will ever be clean. It won’t. Read ‘PATCHWORK RELATIONSHIP‘.

  • Capitalism | Mills | Mumbai

    FLAMINGOS 🦩

    March 14, 2023October 28, 2024
    Flamingos
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    FLAMINGOS 🦩
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    A story of two realities (flight & bondage) juxtaposed in a corner of Mumbai’s forgotten history. Read ‘FLAMINGOS‘ here.

  • Evolution | Healing | Heartbreak | Nostalgia

    Friday Night Nostalgia 🍷🫕

    March 10, 2023April 16, 2023
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    Friday Night Nostalgia 🍷🫕
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    You’re out to dinner on Friday night. It’s nothing exciting, nothing new. Till you look over to the next table. Read ‘FRIDAY NIGHT NOSTALGIA‘ here.

  • Mumbai

    See You At Versova At 6 🌅

    February 20, 2023October 28, 2024
    See you in Versova at 6
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    See You At Versova At 6 🌅
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    Versova bears the name of one of Mumbai’s oldest fishing villages. It is also home to the dream factory of romance. Read ‘See You At Versova At 6 (Milte hain Versova pe)’ here.

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